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April 24, 2024
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Creative solutions for showing/enforcing WORD COUNT in "text w/ formatting" field

  • April 24, 2024
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Hi there,

 

Wondering if anyone here has a creative solution for showing or enforcing word count in a "text with formatting" field?

 

Context - we are trying to show and enforce a word limit at the custom form level on text fields so authors can send content fragments (e.g., paragraphs of text) from Workfront to other downstream systems that will assemble them into various pre-formatted templates; therefore, it is important that they do not author too much text or it will spill over in the final product (e.g., paragraph will run off the PowerPoint slide), which is why a word limit or word counter would be helpful

 

Recognize there is no native Workfront functionality to achieve this, so willing to go the custom route to achieve this.

 

Open to hearing your thoughts and ideas!

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3 replies

April 24, 2024

I have had the same problem with my client. It has been very frustrating and unnecessarily complicated dealing with this. This should absolutely be a native Workfront function!

Community Advisor
April 24, 2024

Hi,

 

Unfortunately there is no functionality to limit the number of characters in a text field and prevent users from typing over that limit.

 

What you could do however, is build a calculated field that counts the number of characters used and then returns a value of "over character limit" (or any words of your choosing) if the character limit is exceeded. Although this wouln't stop people from entering too many characters, it would provide a visual representation of if the limit as been exceeded and act as a validation check.

 

The calculation needed to count characters in a field would be:

 

LEN({DE:Name of Field To Count})

 

Hope this helps!

 

Best Regards,

Rich.

KIMBERLYREA
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
May 1, 2024

This is so great! I just tried this and it's working as we needed to check character count on titles of items.  Thank you. 

RandyRoberts
Community Advisor
Community Advisor
April 24, 2024

Until Adobe gets serious about form validation, this and all related problems will remain… well, problems.